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2026. God With A Human Face

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... saw one Christmas Eve two Christmas wreaths on a door. The one had a red ribbon and the other had a black ribbon. He sensed that the family had a death. Although he was not their pastor, he felt constrained to go and offer his sympathy. It was ... quite possible that this principle can be prostituted so the meaning is distorted and nullified. We all know that gifts can be given out of a sense of duty and obligation. Though we may not want to give, we are ashamed not to have a gift for one whom we know will be ...

2027. Why Prophets Get Under Our Skin

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... Britain used Australia as a dumping ground for British criminals and other malcontents. Were you convicted in the British courts? Then it's either prison or Australia. Many had the good sense to choose Australia! John the Baptist, knowing the background of many Australians, might have left them alone if they had the good sense to remain humble about themselves because of their background. But John knew most people didn't do that. He well knew that most people, in their anxiety of nothingness, and their ...

2028. Someone Greater Than a Prophet

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... Seagull, would have us believe, says Shea, that Jesus "grunted his way to divinity, the little seagull that could." And most every cause and movement wants to quote Jesus as an authority for whatever it is they are advocating. "Jesus brings instant authority and a sense of moral imperative," says Shea. If Jesus is for it, who can be against it? And most of these people and groups do not mean to ridicule Jesus, says Shea. Instead, "each and every Jesus (they wrote) is an attempt to portray the authentic man ...

2029. A Voice to be Heard

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... better. What he saw actually came to pass, and those preliminary stirrings began to shake the foundations of history. And as the child, John, grew up, he became strong in spirit and began living in the wilderness. In a life of solitude, of prayer and fasting, he sensed he was not alone, that the New Age of God's Messiah was at hand. History's long-awaited day was coming. The Christ was approaching. The time of God's anointed was near. The wilderness silence could contain John no longer. He felt the impulses ...

2030. When the Sermon Turns Sour

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

William G. Carter

... a scandalous thing to say. The only thing more disturbing is to remember how that is the sort of thing that is written down in our Bibles. 1. As reported in Matthew 13:57, Mark 6:4, Luke 4:24, and John 4:44. 2. Thomas G. Long, The Senses of Preaching (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1988), p. 31. 3. I am grateful to Dr. Fred B. Craddock for these insights. 4. The story is reported by Dallas Lee, The Cotton Patch Evidence: The Story of Clarence Jordan and the Koinoia Farm Experiment (New York: Harper and Row, 1971 ...

2031. The Kind of People Whom God Chooses

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... it. If you listen to the Gospels of Matthew or Mark, the story is much shorter. Jesus said, “Come, follow me!” Immediately Simon Peter dropped his net on the sand and off he went. No questions in his heart. No doubts in his mind. No inner conflict. No sense of inadequacy. Immediately he went. But as Luke tells the story, it sounds like it could have happened to you or to me. By the time Jesus gets to the beach in chapter five, he has already been to Simon Peter’s house. He went there after preaching ...

2032. Hated, Excluded, Reviled, Defamed — And Leaping For Joy

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

William G. Carter

... day they will be exulted and acclaimed, so God will have to knock them down to size. It doesn’t make any sense. If you are hungry, the day is coming when you shall sit and eat your fill. Later on, when you’re full, God will knock you back down ... to size. That seems to be the logic of the passage, and it doesn’t make sense. Obviously we are not supposed to hear these words as a scientific formula. We cannot earn God’s blessing. At best we can only hear ...

2033. Getting It Together

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

William G. Carter

... to be a part-time Christian because part of the time seems to be the most I can manage to live out my faith: Christian part of the time when certain things seem real and important to me and the rest of the time not Christian in any sense that I can believe matters much to Christ or anybody else ... From time to time I find a kind of heroism momentarily possible — a seeing, doing, telling of Christly truth — but most of the time I am indistinguishable from the rest of the herd that jostles and snuffles ...

2034. Beyond Our Sight, Within Our Hearing

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

William G. Carter

... they were thinking. Did they know he had once climbed a mountain before? Right after his baptism, he headed for the hills. One day he was so high up, he had a good view of all the kingdoms of the world. The buildings glistened with glory. Jesus could sense the authority and power of the world. Just then, trouble struck. Jesus had to fend off a liar who told him, “This could all be yours. Just sign on the dotted line.” “Get out of here,” Jesus said. Jesus had been on the mountain before. We don’t ...

2035. Respect

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... arena. This image was always a good one to drag out when trying to express unity and tolerance. Christianity was not unique among religions in appropriating the image of the body and its limbs to express the work of the Holy Spirit in creating unity, a sense of togetherness, amid diverse members of a group. In the Mahayana Buddhist tradition each member was said to be like a hand or a leg of the Buddha: “The right hand never says to the left hand, ‘I am doing charitable work for you.’ ” 1 Certainly ...

2036. Old Favorite

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... dropped out of high school in his third year. He thought he might find acceptance in the Marine Corps. But his lack of love went with him. He was thrown out and laughed at, with an undesirable discharge. A young, scrawny man in his twenties with no sense of worthiness, he went to live in a foreign country. But he found no love there, either. He married a girl, who had herself been an illegitimate child, and brought her back to America. She developed the same contempt for him that everyone else had displayed ...

2037. A Note to Fearful Hearts

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the oldest son of Jacob and is out among his brothers who are fed up with the youngest, Joseph. The brothers want to kill him. But Reuben is afraid. As the oldest, he knows that the father will most likely blame him. And, to be certain, he feels a small sense of morality in the matter. Murder is a heavy burden to bear, even if you can justify it to yourself on the basis of little Joseph’s arrogant behavior. But Reuben also wants to look good in the eyes of his brothers. He takes a stand but he doesn’t ...

2038. In, But Not Of, The World

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare” (v. 7). Work for the welfare of the city in which you find yourself, and pray on behalf of that city. In one sense this does not seem like very sensible advice. It certainly must have gone against the grain of the Hebrew exiles. After all, for them the one place on earth where God had decreed them to live was Israel. The one place where God dwelt was there (in the Temple in ...

2039. Your Sins Are Remembered No More! You Are Free!

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... has Christ claims as His own.5 Luther says that when we are forgiven by God (justified by grace) it is like getting married to Jesus. In a good marriage the partners share everything in common. Those of you who have been happily married have some sense of how the “blessed exchange,” the sharing that goes on between spouses, changes lives. The lovers in a long-time relationship are not the same persons they were when they first fell in love. Could you say that love has made them forget themselves? That ...

2040. Life's Not Always Fair, But God Will Straighten It Out

Habakkuk 2:2-20, Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... Word to Habakkuk, the Word of God for us in our despair, is a dream of the End. God points us to his final plans at the end of time, when the Lord’s purposes for the world will be complete and when all the turmoils of life will make sense. “If that day seems to tarry,” the Lord says, “wait for it.” It will come. God is going to have his way with the world. All that fights against goodness and justice and happiness will not prevail in the final analysis. God’s way of giving us hope by pointing ...

2041. God's Gifts Are Free: Enjoy

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... that motel or hotel, it is a lot better when the roof leaks there than when it leaks back home, right? When it is somebody else’s problem, life is a little simpler, and it is easier to enjoy things. When you are only borrowing something, there is a sense in which you are freer. That is the way life is for you and me, friends. All the good things that we have belong to God, so “chill out” when problems seem to develop. Good caretakers of other people’s property are careful with what is entrusted to ...

2042. Why Earthly Powers Need No Longer Enslave

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... forever! Daniel’s dream is essentially a reality check for you and me, a Word of liberation. The earthly powers that exert so much impact on our lives need no longer have us in their clutches. The power of these institutions will ultimately wither away. It makes sense, does it not? Americans do not fear Russia as we once did, now that its power has ebbed. You and I do not fear our teachers since we graduated. One day, when comfortably retired, you will not be so concerned about the power of your boss or ...

2043. Salvation Includes Social Justice

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... us that under Christ’s Lordship justice will prevail! No longer can the Church, no longer can our church, stay out of politics and remain silent about the plight of the poor. When will justice be achieved and poverty ended? In a sense Jeremiah said that was in the future. In another sense with Christ that future has now come. Justice, the end of poverty, will not come tomorrow. But it is close. As Martin Luther King, Jr., put it: There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now ...

2044. God Notices

Amos 8:1-14

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... years back someone gave me a little book called Children’s Letters to God. As the title suggests, it is simply a book of actual letters that actual kids wrote to God about all kinds of things. Their letters say much about how children experience God. Sensing that thanksgiving is pleasing to God, these children are quick to appreciate what God has done. Jeff writes, “Dear God, it is great the way you always get the stars in the right places.” And Eugene writes, “Dear God, I didn’t think orange went ...

2045. Changing Seasons, Constant Love

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... , the summer is ended, and we are not saved” (8:20). Time has moved along, the seasons are changing, but nothing has really changed for us. Same old people in the same old lives. Sin still has us in its grip, running our lives, ruining our lives, confusing our sense of what matters, leading us away from God. Why aren’t things better? What about those promises God has made? Why haven’t we been restored? Why haven’t we been made whole? Is there not a balm in Gilead? Is there no one to heal us? Nothing ...

2046. Out of the Box

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... , places, and things with which it feels it holds the most in common. Human beings are tribal and clannish by nature. We fix ourselves in groups that reinforce our identity, safety, and comfort. We gravitate least towards those who threaten our sense of well being, make us insecure, and rattle our sense of purpose in life. We live and think and act and coexist in community with those we believe share our values and views. The question is: Would we have the message of love and hope of Christ if Christ had ...

2047. A Song of Promise

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... a Judean, born of royal blood in the latter part of the seventh century before Christ. A descendant of King Hezekiah, he probably was a cousin of the noble King Josiah. However, Zephaniah’s role in the royal courts was that he came as a prophet. He sensed the calling of prophet when he regarded the invasion of Judah by the Scythians as a harbinger of a greater judgment to come. Zephaniah sized up the condition of his people as ripe for judgment in the light of world events. He also envisioned “a day of ...

2048. A Town of Promise

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... with that thought. He was a rural peasant himself. He championed the cause of the peasantry which had been crushed under the tyranny and greed of the rich. The administration of the kings he knew had not been favorable to the people he loved. He also sensed that the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was imminent. Micah’s view was rural and lacking in sophistication. He may have been regarded as a country bumpkin. Certainly the people had low regard of him when he suggested that the City of Jerusalem ...

2049. The Promising Child

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... difficult to understand that when a mother offers her son for service to the Lord that this is done with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the mother, like Hannah, is prompted by the highest motives and sincere devotion to God. That must be not only with a sense of offering one’s best gift but also with thanksgiving and proper pride that one is able to do so. The Hannah story exudes that kind of joy. At the same time, any time a mother must experience separations from her children she has a deep feeling ...

2050. The Children of Promise

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... realize just how unpopular he was. He was not understood by his colleagues, and the people in general did not appreciate him. Commonly, he was regarded as being a wild crusader who was not going to serve the welfare of his people. Because Jeremiah sensed that the people of Israel were under judgment for their indifference to the covenant God had made with them, he knew the signs were present which indicated Judah would be overrun by the Babylonians and carried into exile. He preached the warning about Judah ...

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